Why do Catholics think they can commit whatever sin, than have it cleared by going to confession?

Question

This morning, before coming home from work, I stopped to eat at an all night dinner. This place is near the party area of Kansas City, so it gets a lot of people leaving the bars or parties. Two women were siting in another booth and the one was talking about the three guys she had sex with, at three different parties she had attended. She talked about the usual things about the men, but what I found interesting is what she said as she was leaving. When she started getting ready to leave, she said that she had to get up early to go to church to give confession for the sex.

I was just chatting with my mother on Yahoo and she said that her mother did the same thing, which is why she didn't introduce us to it.

On another note, for those of you whose mother or grandmothers don't think they can operate a computer, she's 80 and get her first one five years ago. She never held any other job except that of being a mother. Anyone can learn.

Answer 1

I think that the nice ladys at the diner were playing a trick on you my friend.

The first thing that someone should be considering is whether the idea of sin is actually real.

If God is supposed to be perfect how could She have made anything or anyone that wasn't.
Think about it. The idea of sin assumes certain things about God that seem highly unlikely.
All this talk about sin sounds like a bunch of nonsense to me.

First it assumes a God who is too incompetent to organize a simple educational field excursion and figure out a way to get all of the students home safely.

How likely is this that God would not be smart enough to come up with a plan for our salvation that is going to work?

It also assumes that God must have created us imperfect if we are sinners.

One might assume that God would be able to create someone perfect each and every time if he chose to. Assuming God is capable of this, then it follows logically that we must be perfect creations if we are actually creations of this perfect God.

Unless of course you are saying that God chose to create us imperfect.

If God created us imperfect then anything that may go wrong is Gods fault, not ours. This seems a bit illogical at best so I think that we need to assume that What God creates would have to be perfect.

If this is the case and Gods creations are perfect, then nothing that we can do could change what God created perfect and make it imperfect unless we think that we are more powerful than God is.

How likely is it that we the creation could be more powerful than the creator. I personally find this idea somewhat amusing, and a bit absurd.

Religion tells us that God is perfect. If this is true then it could hardly be logically for Gods creations to be considered to be anything less than perfect.

If this is the case then Nothing that we can ever do could possibly change this perfection that God willed, unless we were so powerful that our choices could override and change the will of God.

How likely is that????

Think about it.

The idea of sin is simple nonsense; a lie made up about God by religion.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 2

When a confessor is not totally honest and contrite of heart about the sin(s) they confess, the sin is not forgiven.

Neither you nor me know what is in this woman's heart. But, from the info you have provided, she beleives she can ask, and receive, forgivess of sins she is not really sorry for. If this is the case, the sins that she has not repented for are not forgiven.

From the nature of your question, I am sensing that you have judged all Catholics as dishonest confessors on account of the actions of one Catholic whom you've witnessed. People must be taken one at a time.

Also, remember that Jesus came to call the sinner, not the righteous. Of course, who is righteous is the eyes of the Lord? Surely not this women of which you speak. But neither are you, or me, at the moment. That will hopefully change at some point in the future.

I would be disgusted too if I witnessed what you saw. However, rather than believe all Catholics are foolish to believe in the Sacrament of Confession, I would feel sorry for this woman and pray for her.

She is misguided about the Sacrament in question, and, as a result, is abusing it. But that doesn't mean all Catholics do that. Nor does it mean the Sacrament of Confession is a sham.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

First, not ALL Catholics think this way. Secondly, this particular woman is likely deluding herself. In order for confession to be valid, a person must have something called contrition . . . a contrite heart. This means the person is truly sorry for their actions. When someone is contrite and recieves confession, they leave and try very hard not to sin again. We usually fail. We are, sadly, fallen creatures, and sin comes easy to us. But this kind of situation suggests the woman may not have been sorry at all for her behavior. In that case, no amount of confession would make things right between her and God. (Obviously, I can't judge this particular case, but am using it as an example.)

The link below has a lot of information on confession, in case your interested.

Answer 5

This has been a tradition in Christianity for centuries I think. There is nothing new about it but it is completely strange for people of other religions. You cannot do mistakes and get them removed every time with just a confession. Confessions in christianity might be started with a good in-tension, but I wonder if true confessions are not rare.

Answer 6

Because that is the way our religion is, convenient isn't it? If you have a problem with that then talk to Jesus, he is the one that asked Peter to create the Catholic church, and that is one of the covenants of the Catholic church. By the way I no longer practice my religion, haven't done so in years...I think religion is the root cause of all evils now, and a waste of time. Just look at the state of the world currently, it's all because of religious fanatics.

Answer 7

If you were interested, why didn't you ask her?

Why ask people who are not her to comment on what she has done?

Moreover, why generalize and take your experience with overhearing ONE WOMAN as the truth for ALL members of the Catholic faith?

Answer 8

She obviously doesn't understand the sacrament and is compounding her sins by adding the sin of presumption. Please don't take her as an example of how Catholics view confession.

For the truth about how Catholics view confession, check it out here:

http://www.scborromeo.org/papers/confess.PDF

Answer 9

That's pretty sick! I probably shouldn't say this, but there's a good chance of catholics going to hell. To believe that it's all right to do something like this is amazing to me. That's definitely not following Jesus. That can't even be a religion. They believe in doing what ever they want. Catholic religion is so corrupt.

Answer 10

They are a messed up religion. That is why. Remember that is the same religion that give a slap on the wrist for there priest when they molested them boys.